The U.S. military, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, secretly launched a campaign to counter what appeared to be China's 'growing influence in the Philippines.'
At the height of the
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus. 'COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!' one typical tweet from July 2020 read in Tagalog.
galvanized the drive to wage psychological operations against China. One former senior Pentagon leader described the pandemic as a 'bolt of energy' that finally ignited the long delayed counteroffensive against China’s influence war. The Pentagon’s anti-vax propaganda came in response to China’s own efforts to spread false information about the origins of COVID. The virus first emerged in China in late 2019.
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